reflation — Government monetary action that causes a reversal of deflation. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary * * * reflate re‧flate [riːˈfleɪt] verb [intransitive, transitive] ECONOMICS if a government reflates the economy, it increases government spending,… … Financial and business terms

reflate — re‧flate [riːˈfleɪt] verb [intransitive, transitive] ECONOMICS if a government reflates the economy, it increases government spending, reduces interest rates etc in order to increase demand and encourage economic activity: • measures to reflate… … Financial and business terms

Great Depression — This article is about the severe worldwide economic downturn in the 1930s. For other uses, see The Great Depression (disambiguation) … Wikipedia

reflation — re|fla|tion [ri:ˈfleıʃən] n [U] technical the process of increasing the amount of money being used in a country in order to increase trade →↑inflation, deflation ↑deflation &GT;reflate [ri:ˈfleıt] v [I and T] &GT;reflationary adj … Dictionary of contemporary English